Visual Media, Technology & Health

This blog offers a discussion of the possibilities of visual media and technology for health,education, communication and political action. Periodically, this blog is a collaborative effort with graduate students in public health at Hunter College, some of whom serve as guest bloggers and some of whom create their own blogs.

Friday, October 09, 2009

Thinking about Copyright Issues

One of the recommended but not required books for this course is Bound by Law , a graphic novel that deals with copyright law. If you haven...

Films at the Schomburg

There are some great documentaries that you can see at the Schomburg this weekend and next: October 10th - 1p.m. to 4p.m. 1 p.m. Scarred...

Monday, October 05, 2009

Podcast on Cyber Racism

The good folks at Contexts (the magazine of the American Sociological Association) asked me to an interview for their podcast series a few ...

Tuesday, September 29, 2009

Opportunities Abound ~

Opportunities abound for both seeing and creating documentaries and new media projects. Here are few that have come to my attention recentl...

Tuesday, September 22, 2009

Public Health 2.0

JRanck has provided a terrific report that offers a descriptive overview of what we might call, "Public Health 2.0" - riffing on ...

Sunday, September 20, 2009

HIV/AIDS in the Caribbean: A Deadly Cycle of Stigma and Secrecy

I heard about this health-related documentary screening via my church bulletin this Sunday and thought I would pass this along: HIV/AIDS ...

Tuesday, September 15, 2009

Documentary "Crude" with Filmmakers Present

The IFC Theater on W.4th is a good resource for independent and documentary films. They are currently screening "Crude," a new ...

Taking a Look at Wiseman's, "Titicut Follies"

The short health-related videos that are common today are very different from classic health-related documentaries, such as Frederick Wisema...

Monday, September 14, 2009

Girl Effect: Short Video

This is a short video (2:23) about the importance of universal education for girls (hat tip: Arlen). As you probably already know, there are...

Fall Semester, 2009: Visual Media, Technology & Health (PH 770)

I'm playing around with the title of this blog as I gear up for another semester of teaching the graduate course, "Visual Media, Te...

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Jessie Daniels: Jessie Daniels has an MA and PhD in Sociology from the University of Texas at Austin. She is Associate Professor at Hunter College in Urban Public Health. Daniels is the author of two books White Lies (Routledge, 1997) and Cyber Racism (Rowman & Littlefield, 2009), both dealing with race and various forms of media. Currently, she is at work on a number of research projects about digital media, social inequality and health, including: 1) a study of feminist bloggers, and 2) an investigation of how LGBTQ homeless youth use mobile digital devices to survive on the streets.

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